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Bedford And Northampton Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![The letters are back! This country station, closed in 1962, was some way out of the village it served, towards Bedford. The station porch originally had black block letters on its bargeboards. The recently fitted replacements aren't 100% authentic, but full marks to the current owners (an agricultural feed specialist) for replacing them.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 11/04/2010]](/images/30000/30480.jpg "Turvey")
![Former rail under-bridge in Great Houghton, on the line from Northampton to Bedford, with directions to the trackbed, now a foot & cycle path to Northampton.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 04/08/2010]](/images/31000/31131.jpg "Great Houghton")
![View over the former Cotton End level crossing in Northampton to what is now 'forest' enveloping the middle section of the old Bedford line. The Brackmills section, near lines end, is weed free and appears to see occasional use. [see image 31179] View is north west towards Northampton on 4 August 2010.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 04/08/2010]](/images/31000/31155.jpg "Northampton")
![Looking south east along the former Bedford line from Burryport Road level crossing, Brackmills, Northampton, with the spur to the Geismar on-rail manufacturing plant leading off to right, and what appear to be a further set of points for a run round loop on the curve beyond. Weed free track and rust free rail suggests the line is still used from time to time for plant testing purposes.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 04/08/2010]](/images/31000/31179.jpg "Northampton")
![The Geismar rail trolley factory still has its small yard connected to the Bedford-Northampton line. Picture taken over security fence, looking towards Bedford in March 2011.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 18/03/2011]](/images/33000/33285.jpg "Northampton")
![The crossing over the industrial estate road at Brackmills on the stub of the Bedford line near the Geismar works [see image 33285]. Notice the zigzag weld lines for audible warning, and the sleepers laid across the road.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 18/03/2011]](/images/34000/34291.jpg "Northampton")
![Looking West from a convenient layby on the A6 North of Bedford across the Midland Main Line, the remains of the Bedford and Northampton Railway's line to Northampton can be clearly seen as a curved boundary between fields in the background. I would love to see this line reopened - especially a new station at the wonderfully named Newton Blossomville - but fear it would not serve any strategic purpose. Olney may be choked with traffic in rush hour, but most of the drivers seem to be heading for Milton Keynes, not Bedford.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 23/07/2011]](/images/50000/50403.jpg "Oakley Junction")
![This is the East chord from the Bedford and Peterborough lines to Northampton (formerly Castle) station. In this direction, the bridge crosses the Grand Union Canal, then the River Nene. Goods sidings to the right and left beyond the bridge have gone, as has the West chord. The trackbed from here to Brackmills [see image 34291] has been bought by West Northamptonshire Development Corporation for £1.5m for conversion to a footpath and cycleway.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 21/02/2014]](/images/46000/46434.jpg "Northampton")
